Contours of a World” at the Guggenheim Museum includes paintings as well as photography that suggests an alternate path.

Installation view of “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (December 14, 2014-April 5, 2015). Photo ...

Jenny Saville’s mid-career retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features one banger of a painting after another. All hits. “Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting” because Saville (b.

Installation view of Now! Young Painting in Germany at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz; Sabrina Haunsperg, “Ohne Titel (2019) Oil on canvas 90 x 110 cm (image courtesy ...

Artnet’s spring Post-War and Contemporary Art premier sale has now launched online, offering a diversity of genres and price points. Featuring major art-historical figures including Pablo Picasso and ...

Sprung has had a long career in figurative painting, including paintings for Congress, and has a connection to past-White House portraits: When she was younger, she developed an artistic relationship ...

It has become fashionable to say that painters are returning to realism. Such talk is almost always accompanied by skeptical remarks about difficult or obscure art and observations on the bankruptcy ...

THE French nation has led the world in many movements tending to establish exalted ideals and to uplift mankind ; but at no time in its history have its aims and efforts been more noble or more ...

A show at Nahmad Contemporary is an outgrowth of debates around “tradition” in art. Can artists embrace beauty while reaching for new technology? By Travis Diehl Every new generation of artists, ...

A young woman stands defiantly as two police officers clad in body armor and riot helmets attempt to arrest her. They reach for her and yet seem to fall away, as though her poise repels them. The ...

The art world of the 1960s was starkly different from today’s resolutely commercial scene. In his memoir “Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man,” Michael Findlay remembers the time before it ...